The Refutation of All Heresies: Book VII.
by Hippolytus
On Basilides, Marcion, and others, with careful attention to the philosophy behind each.
1. Contents.2. Heresy Compared to (1) the Stormy Ocean, (2) the Rocks of the Sirens; Moral from Ulysses and the Sirens.3. The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.4. Sketch of Aristotle's Philosophy.5. Aristotle's General Idea.6. Nonentity as a Cause.7. Substance, According to Aristotle; The Predicates.8. Aristotle's Cosmogony; His “Psychology;” His “Entelecheia;” His Theology; His Ethics; Basilides Follows Aristotle.9. Basilides and Isidorus Allege Apostolic Sanction for Their Systems; They Really Follow Aristotle.10. Basilides Adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of “Nonentity.”11. Origin of the World; Basilides' Account of the “Sonship.”12. The “Great Archon” Of Basilides.13. Basilides Adopts the “Entelecheia” Of Aristotle.14. Further Explanation of the “Sonship.”15. Whence Came the Gospel; The Number of Heavens According to Basilides; Explanation of Christ's Miraculous Conception.16. God's Dealings with the Creature; Basilides' Notion of (1) the Inner Man, (2) the Gospel; His Interpretation of the Life and Sufferings of Our Lord.17. The System of Saturnilus.18. Marcion; His Dualism; Derives His System from Empedocles; Sketch of the Doctrine of Empedocles.19. Source of Marcionism; Empedocles Reasserted as the Suggester of the Heresy.20. The Heresy of Prepon; Follows Empedocles; Marcion Rejects the Generation of the Saviour.21. The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus Christ; Practise Magical Arts; Adopt a Metempsychosis.22. The System of Cerinthus Concerning Christ.23. Doctrine of the Ebionæans.24. The Heresy of Theodotus.25. The Melchisedecians; The Nicolaitans.26. The Heresy of Cerdon.27. The Doctrines of Apelles; Philumene, His Prophetess.